De kotmadam

- Season 10

(2001)

Lus is gone for a world tour, so Jeanne takes a new boarder, nerdy pedagogy and philosophy student Brigitte. Now someone is selling a billiard table, Jef enlists Odilon to keep the room free, and Brigitte out, but Tineke assures here his horror stories -like rats- are just a prank on newbies- so she makes Jeanne believe she must be knowledgeable in philosophy, as here previous landlady supposedly did. Gentil has a new computer, but doesn't trust Hugo near it. Dieter calls: he has a foreign scholarship for the whole academic year, so Jef hopes to take his room, but the...

Jef wants to buy a professional race bicycle, but realizes Jeanne won't easily agree with such a budget drain; he thinks he must play the domestic husband, but just then Mimi says she envies Jeanne for having a sweet man rather then a macho, while she calls him (closer to the truth) a spineless good-for-nothing couch-potato. Penniless Dumbo Hugo's latest plan to earn some dough is to become a dancing bouncer, so Lucas and Tineke help him train for the part after he refuses to accept their warning he's likely to cop a beating; when he 'practices' by manhandling Gentil,...

Gentil is sure he knows the right pharmaceutical stock to invest in- but Brigitte, Lucas, Tineke and Hugo only make fun and fight at his presentation for the other students, none is willing to input any capital, let alone pay him part of the profit, and Odilon can't even understand the concept of shares. Jeanne is as enthusiastic -seconded by Brigitte- as Jef is opposed when he gets a letter that his distant cousin Honoré, a businessman from Canada, is coming to Belgium and paying them a visit. When he arrives, he promises Gentil to invest heavy and split the profit, ...

After Jeanne refused point blank to allow the students to hold a pasta party, Jef boasts he could handle her better- Lucas makes him bet to do so by tomorrow evening, the loser has to paint his hair blond; he doesn't make any progress, nor with getting Jeanne out to the movies as alternative. When nerdy Brigitte, who is still embarrassed to be the last virgin in her year even after Jeanne says that's just a good choice, hears the others plan a party night in a club, she makes dufus Hugo invite her too- and gets drunk as a skunk; since the men still didn't pay her any ...

The ever kind and humane Odilon tries with Hugos help to fill an organ donor codicil; they are overheard by Gentil, who now believes and spreads the rumor Odilon is dying. The vultures start circling the bachelor for the inheritance as he hardly spends a dime; Gentil goes as far as strongly suggesting to be adopted. Meanwhile Lucas dares Tineke to prove she can camp in a tent in the garden before she does it for real with a certain Jan, who unfortunately for her already has a girlfriend as she learns too late; Hugo secretly helps her.

Jef heard the noble-born relative of city alderman Baldewijns -very influential in his greens department- is looking for a student room, and said he is welcome next week, even though they have no free one; so Jeanne and he desperately hope to get someone to move out, probably dumb Hugo. Gentil figures Montignac made a fortune with his ridiculous diet, so he can do the same, enlisting Brigitte to help him devise recipes to fit his far too complex color-coded 'Gentilian' combination rules (which allow to fit anything in) and Odilon as taster and to pretend he lost 21 ...

Hugo has a hot girlfriend, Lieve, who wants to go to bed with him, but he doesn't dare bring her in. So Lucas and Tineke advise him to play the gay guy, Jeanne may then be so relieved when he invites a girl that she lets them in. Gentil is terrified when he seems to be the object of gay love; Jeanne, who had been bragging to Mimi -it's Mothers day- she mothers her students at least as good as a real mother, feels a failure once Lucas claims homosexuality is the result of an all to domineering mother figure; Brigitte tells Jeanne his 'denial of his nature' can cause ...

Jeanne has another business ambition, making sweets cakes, but apparently no talent to match. When Hugo uses a drill on his room, he accidentally makes a hole looking straight into Brigitte's room- to his delight, so he tries to guess where he could drill above Tineke- wrong, it's Lucas's; another attempt above Gentil's is also noticed. When Jef wants to go fishing, he tells Odilon to make a fish carrying chest but doesn't dare ask Jeanne again, he pretends to help a friend, Miel, moving- she is touched but offers to help, so he tries to keep her busy with fake cake ...

Jeanne wants a new mattress, so her old one (double bed) would be a good catch for a student who wants 'company', but Jef is against as it undermines an excuse to take days off because of his 'bad back'. Mimi has failed her drivers test for the n-th time, so she persuades student Lucas to give her paid lessons, and does him some domestic favors, such as mending his pants and teaching him how, which makes Jeanne feel passed by as 'maternal' figure; Gentil takes it they have an unnatural intimate relationship and even informs her jealous husband Jos, who bursts in but ...

Jef is going to a colleague's bachelor party, but Jeanne doesn't trust him in case there's a stripper, so he asks Odilon as chaperon and Lucas makes a potion supposedly suppressing his libido. Hugo was enthusiastic to hear Tineke was dumped by her lover Bjorn, but then Gentil sets him worrying she may have gone off boys altogether and turned lesbian; as she asks Brigite to spend the night together consoling her and scaring Hugo off, the boys think they both became dikes. Jef returns from the party with a strippers bra in his pocket, so he must hide it and Lucas' hasty...

Brigitte returns from a weekend retreat completely under the influence of an obscure oriental swami. Jef was looking forward to two days off and a surprise from Jeanne- his mood will darken when he finds out she wants him to hang up new wall paper, the surprise is just a not even defined reward; Lucas suggests he wriggles out of it by pretending to be converted by swami too. Tineke surprises Gentil with a Playboy he 'lend' from Hugo and blackmails him with it to get his pharmacology notes, and they both play it hard, he even uses high tension on his door.

Odilon gets scented letters from Amsterdam, actually from convict Edward's girlfriend Truus Bakker who thinks he's the prison guard and has agreed on his first day out ever, meant for his mothers funeral, to accompany him to Truus; however Jef thinks he's secretly taking snooker lessons, Jeanne that he has the girlfriend who's a gold-digger, so she and Brigitte decide to 'save' him... Bragging makes Hugo and Gentil hold a contest who could survive longest on a raft on the ocean just on water; Hugo cheats with Lucas' help...

Tineke is in utter panic to have lost her study notes shortly before partial exams; Gentil refuses to lend her his old notes 'she'ld better become a toilet lady'; Hugo gets him to explain his study method and even gets his notes for her- from the wrong course; when she offers to pay 500 francs for the right ones, he first copies these just for sale. When Jef returns home wet after a drunk jump into the river Dijle, he and Odilon pretend he saved a lonely old man's pet dog, but panic when Jeanne and Brigitte insist to inform the press, so now he lies on it was actually...

Jeanne joins Mimi's clay modeling class, which has already started. Tineke asks the boys to help her think up an original exclusive mothers day gift, but is out of the big money for once; failing ideas, she sells her chic scarf cheap to Mimi and plans to raise a lot more by a major clothes sale. Jef decides Jeannes going to class twice a week means he can also go to the billiards club a day a week more often by joining the clubs board as treasurer. When the students make fun of her first clay model, Jeanne considers stopping, but Jef needs her to continue; so he makes...

Tineke is convinced she can easily find a 'dumb Belgian' to shout her in a restaurant, so she bets for a dinner against Lucas, but even sucking up to Gentil fails, so her last resort is sending Odilon an anonymous free invitation for two; alas, Lucas talks him into asking Jeanne, so Tineke convinces her Odilons boorish manners will embarrass them, but Lucas and Hugo counter by offering a course in table manners... Meanwhile Jef has his eye cast on a magazine contest to win fishery equipment, so he uses the intelligence rivalry between Gentil and Brigitte to make them ...